Book on Jews in Frankfurt During Nazi Years Published in Germany

The first volume of a projected two-volume work to detail the fate of the Jews of this ancient city, from the rise of the Hitler power in 1933, until the defeat of the Nazis in 1945, was published here today. The present volume contains documentation from Government and Nazi Party files. A second volume will contain a description of the events connected with the documents.

The book was edited by Dietrich Adernacht and Dr. Eleanor Sterling, former West German correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Mayor Werner Bockelman, of Frankfurt, wrote a foreword to the volume, stating: “In comparison with comparable publications, more emphasis is here laid on the initial years of Nazi rule. It is in the beginnings, not the end, that we find right abandoned. The very magnitude of the catastrophe can all too easily obscure the fact that injustice always begins in small things.”